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 expedition to Vienna, which, however, might have been gained at less expenditure of force and time. In the night of the 13th of June, Thurn broke up his camp and marched to Schwechat, where he passed the Danube and entered upon his return to Bohemia. In taking leave of the Protestants of Lower Austria, he exchanged with them hopes for the future, and encouraged them to perseverance.

In Bohemia, in the meantime, the war force was very considerably increased on both sides. Since the month of March the insurgents had made the utmost exertions to fill up the army by new enlistments, and as Thurn in his expedition to Moravia was accompanied by few besides the levy, it followed that Hohenloe, who still stood before Budweis, drew all the reinforcements to himself. Reckoning the troops under Mansfeld at Pilsen and the Silesian auxiliaries with them, the Bohemian army numbered, after the month of May, 14,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry.

As the army commanded by Buquoi was greatly reduced, the imperial government must also give its attention to new enlistments. Matthias' resources were so trifling that, immediately after the insurrectionary outbreak, he had applied to the King of Spain through Count Khevenhiller for aid. At first Philip resolved upon a subsidy, and in October, 1618, upon sending 3,000 men armed and maintaining them, and to this he afterwards added, in January, 1619, a sum sufficient to arm 7,000 men who should move from Flanders to the scene of the war. A few weeks later he directed the enlistment of 17,000 men in Italy. The Italian auxiliaries dwindled down on the march to less than one-half, and did not reach the theatre of the war until the winter 1619–20. The.enlistments in Flanders, on the contrary, were quickly made up to a